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Arrhenia acerosa (Fr.) Kühner, Bull. mens. Soc. linn. Lyon Num. Spéc. 49(Num. Spéc.): 893 (1980)

Pleurotus tremulus sensu Rea (1922)
Agaricus acerosus Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 191 (1821)
Pleurotus acerosus (Fr.) Quél., Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard Sér. 2 5: 246 (1872)
Pleurotellus acerosus (Fr.) Konrad & Maubl., Icon. Select. Fung. 6: 361 (1937)
Leptoglossum acerosum (Fr.) M.M. Moser, Kl. Krypt.-Fl. Bd II b/2, ed. 4 (Stuttgart): 127 (1978)
Omphalina acerosa (Fr.) M. Lange, Nordic Jl Bot. 1(5): 695 (1981)

Habitat: On soil or decayed wood (stumps and woodchips) associated with mosses, though this is not always evident.

Notes: Occasional but widespread.

Distribution: E: o, S: o, W: !, NI: o, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 86345; Scotland: K(M) 86340; Wales: K(M) 155068; NI: K(M) 83031

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Pleurotus acerosus, p. 185
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 140, pl. 136
I:, in Courtecuisse. R. & Duhem. B., Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe: 480 pp. (1995), p. 153
D:, in Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 6 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid agarics 6: 157 pp. (1989), p. 31
D:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 3: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Tricholomataceae (2), (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 3: 183 pp. (1995), as Omphalina acerosa, p. 87

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